Traumatic memories are always vivid.
Yes indeed.
It was the only time in my life, however, that I can remember my entire body being soaked with sweat.
I'm not surprised. What you did was very brave. Staffordshires can even bite their owners if they try to break up a dog fight (inadvertently, perhaps) and pit bulls are far more likely than them to have been bred for fighting. (They're smuggled in here for dog fighting.)
Here too people have been badly wounded, and babies killed, by pit bulls; in the last case, the family member who tried to stop the dog was fairly badly hurt. Of course other dogs will do that too, of course the owners are very much to blame; but those dogs are killing machines. (If the dachscunds at the bottom of the street tired of barking at me and went on the attack, I imagine I'd be OK... a rogue bull terrier is another matter.)
Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Yost" <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 4:45 AM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Dogo Argentino, etc
I'm sorry, Eric.
Thanks very much Judy, but let me also emphasize that it was several years ago. Traumatic memories are always vivid. That's why I blather on about it. It was the only time in my life, however, that I can remember my entire body being soaked with sweat. My pants, for example, were sopping wet with my own sweat -- as though they had been pulled out of a washing machine. My socks were wet my own sweat. There was nowhere to sit down, and no use for it but instantly showering. Like playing six nonstop hours of tennis in one's street clothes. All compressed into twenty minutes. Granted, it's not a philosophical argument, but one wishes philosophy had more room for intense experience ... though maybe Robert Paul hit the nail when he quoted Nussbaum's: "That there might be other ways of being precise, other conceptions of lucidity and completeness that might be held to be more appropriate for ethical thought—this was, on the whole, neither asserted or even denied." Best, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html